ENVIRON’s expert assistance in assessing and mitigating potential environmental risks enables clients to respond more effectively to current business, regulatory and legal challenges, and to reduce or eliminate future liabilities.

Clients rely on ENVIRON’s technical and strategic assistance to help ensure regulatory compliance and manage potential liabilities of facility operations, and to assess environmental, health and safety risks during the merger and acquisition due diligence process.

Toxicological Sciences

The need for scientifically rigorous and defensible assessments of toxicological information arises in numerous contexts relevant to our diverse clients. The safety of foods, drugs and all types of consumer products; health risks associated with environmental contaminants, workplace chemical exposures and accidental releases; and evaluations required by emerging and far-reaching regulatory initiatives such as REACH cannot be adequately addressed without an understanding of underlying toxicological issues. The vast and growing areas of toxic tort and product liability litigation also depend on the best available understanding of toxic phenomena.

The unparalleled breadth of experience of ENVIRON’s toxicologists spans the full spectrum of the toxicological sciences, positioning us to address almost any problem brought to us by our clients that relates to chemical exposures and human health. We have long and direct experience with the many regulatory and legal contexts in which toxicology issues arise, and can efficiently guide clients through their often confusing technical requirements. Our scientists are active professionals who contribute significantly to evolving science in these areas. We can take on highly complex emerging toxicology issues―new types of health concerns, new methods for understanding the biological processes underlying toxicity, new techniques for studying toxicity, new ways to model dose-response and kinetics information―and provide reliable scientific interpretations. We are also skilled in providing analyses to counter often exaggerated claims about the health concerns associated with these emerging issues. We are effective communicators of complex science, an essential ingredient of our clients’ needs.

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Dose-Response Assessment

Dose-response assessment relies on extrapolation from high doses administered to animals or experienced by highly exposed human populations to much lower doses more typically encountered during product use or in community or environmental settings. ENVIRON has published high-profile scientific manuscripts on dose-response assessment for many chemicals that drive product, regulatory and legal concerns, including arsenic, dioxins and perchlorate.

Exposure Prediction & Reconstruction

ENVIRON is often called upon to help predict or reconstruct chemical exposures in diverse settings such as volatile chemicals in indoor air; mercury, dioxins and PCBs in sediments downstream from manufacturing sites; or metals in communities near mines and smelters.